Masks, riso-drawings – 2015.
Riso-prints, collage, drawing on paper.
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In ‘Masks’ I have combined drawings of tribal masks and 18th century paper dolls.
Besides the series of riso-prints I have also worked over a lot of the ‘Masks’ riso-prints with pencil, pastel, paper cuts and acrylic paint.
Freaks icons – 2012-2015.
Portraits of performers from the last century circuses, the then so-called freaks. Portrayed as icons in rich colours, fabrics and embroidery, the images based on the old circus posters, making them god-like, transforming their disabilities into super-powers.
Silkscreen print on fabric, worked over with painting, application and embroidery.
Of each portrait there is a red and flowery (background) version.
A couple of Freak Icons were also used in the installation ‘A stroll in the park’ at ‘Graphics & beyond’, 2012.
‘Hoi’ (hi) is a series of pencil drawings made to reflect on those aside conversations you have between friends.
At the exhibition ‘Graphics & Beyond’ in de Pieter, Leiden (organised by the Grafische Werkplaats) I transformed a room into a small circus tent, complete with sawdust to present the romance between Miss Sophia Schultz and Major Mite.
The 3 presented works are out of the Freaks Icons series.
Fabric, string curtain, lights, sawdust and 3 silkscreen prints on fabric
2012
A performance with 3 costume statues. Deep in the woods 3 very different energies are manifesting themselves. They seem to be closed off from each other; each in their own little world. But is this right? Don’t they belong together and form a whole? Based on the Chakra energies. videorealisation: André Bijma assistance & light: William Pennings performers: Ingetje Wielenga, Yanaika Holle, Ilse Versluijs music: Davide Bellotta. Presented at Ververs gallery, Amsterdam in 2011. Exhibition of drawings of the Freaks series, the silkscreen print (the back piece) ‘In the woods’ and 3 statue costumes. The performance took place during the opening. The videorealisation was done separately.
2011
